it's from the press. magic it's pretty amazing. to have a team that's guys in the world so i'm really. just her answers the babies change so much or the syrians were basically. monitoring the whole thing i'll turn to francis how things are this next month really. he's turned his let's turn to every single day sir through the eyes. well i'm going to stay all day doubly what will south africa's election mean for the country's economy will have to tell you business africa in just about. here what's coming up on the bundesliga you plenty to talk about here on. the monitors legal every weekend here. they

want to represent you so what do you want from the joint on the phone from twenty people i'm such a value as we put your questions it seems politicians from around to your opinion and across the political spectrum in our special debate will be hearing from young europeans voting for the first time in the new elections in may voicing their biggest concerns face today says i mean please answer to you. and thirty four. in. south africa goes to the polls despite rampant unemployment and out of control debts it looks like voters will return the incumbent and see policy and its presidents are all wrong the pros are to office will still face the problems that have been fixed since the fall of apartheid. tightening belts during ramadan

soaring prices in algeria i mean many families who will not be able to touch essential food as tradition demands. this is business africa. as a berlin welcome south african president. is on course to retain power in the country's elections today he'll face the immediate challenge of fixing a floundering economy that is stoking public on wrist while the country is the continent. most industrialized economy it is grappling with stagnating growth rampant corruption ballooning national debt of low investor confidence half way down the country's potential of the ruling a.n.c. it's been in power since the end of apartheid and is widely tipped to win again holding at more than fifty percent of the vote on employment is near thirty percent soaring fuel prices and a weak currency are adding to the problems. for the incumbent opposer will have a tough task creating jobs attracting foreign money and tackling corruption

speaking to d.w. a few days ago repos was confident that he can turn the economy around. we're going to drum up a lot of investments beyond these elections the level of confidence in the business community will go high and they are telling me that as well so investing a lot and what happens after out the elections had one thing elections have happened they caught on they were take all will be able to walk a large mall investment into our country you wait to see. a no win election elections bill clinton's old adage applies it's the economy stupid and that if you get the economy right get people into jobs and make sure they can have good money to feed their families you would elections in opposing states that seems to be irrelevant african economy truly is a bad state and yet he is still leading the polls our correspondent alison gallagher is in cape town for us ellis also africans really happy with

a common situation and wrong opposes reforms. do you feel that it's it's who takes the me now twenty five years on the first of many connections look back at the promises the a.n.c. made debt to improve the lives of people expected jobs people really thought by now did not use them and so use promises you still going to win but i think we are going to see that they are going to do so voters just be less on. the wire come through opposition skoal on the economic record. well they're trying to people see to talk opposition parties who gets more folks on the recent o.t. called smores that a lot of people that not happy are not going to vote for may need looking at the young people who are hopes up are tight if you look at the record between eighteen and thirty years old to read you know that often didn't fit just to be just best

friends so that is the public position mark to reach. starts getting. on and get more votes. so now a lot of the older generation is voting that still support. as we've heard. there speaking about incoming foreign investment and growing trust of the business community is he completely out of touch or will he be able to turn the economy around. he. said. it was because the. people there. was. no. so. that's. what was it was it.

was fun go over there in cape town for us and we had college asked for the sound quality that thank you others across the muslim world to face full of fasting during daytime for the holy month of ramadan that means no eating during the day but when the sun goes down fast can turn to faced in algeria the political and economic crisis results in galloping inflation and that means many families will not be able to purchase the essential foods that ramadan tradition demands. during the day algerian families go to the marketplace to shop for the ingredients to break the remedy down fast in the evening but this year soaring prices mean they'll struggle to buy traditional ingredients for weapons of tomato and zucchini prices are incredibly high. inflation and financial difficulties are

already making it hard for families but prices have increased exponentially in the month of ramadan some shoppers suspect vendors of price gouging that. seventy percent of vendors do not respect the reference price and only thirty percent of vendors do so we want the authorities to force the vendors to comply with the official price vendors say they're being unfairly accused. it's not our fault the problem is with wholesalers in other cities. is no evidence of price fixing the products are simply subject to the rules of supply and demand. however the unprecedented price rises have prompted authorities to launch surprise inspections aimed at getting the markets back into balance. many seek to improve their income with some of those seasonal jobs that flourished during the month of ramadan or the market or alleys in various tunisian

cities are packed to the season of them who are there with the crescent of ramadan ramadan boosts the livelihood of many people some ordinary shops turn to selling foodstuffs especially sweets olives. and to iran where president hassan rouhani has warned that the country would resume its nuclear enrichment program after the u.s. said it would not extend exemptions to sanctions u.s. sanctions on iran and venezuela tightening also problems is suspected to drive prices in the coming weeks could be other trade related pitfalls ahead iran's biggest oil consumer customer rather china threatens to ignore the u.s. sanctions because tehran is a key ally in its road infrastructure project. chinese energy company has just signed a deal worth more than a billion dollars to recover natural gas from iraq's giant how fire oilfield

representatives from china's c.p. easy c. and petro china signed the agreement in baghdad with iraq's ministry of oil in chinese say the gas processing plant will be able to recover and refine three hundred million cubic feet of gas pradesh its plans to be operational in two and a half year deal comes a day after iraq announced plans for a fifty three billion dollar and energy project with x x a mobile special charge. fees but germany's geographical location smack bang in the middle of europe means that intra european commercial traffic is crisscrossing the country day and night so noisy diesel guzzling trucks tend to dominate the country's outer bands and their numbers are increasing now germany has opened its first electric highway for hybrid trucks testing the technology on both sides of a five kilometer stretch south of france. for andreas patterson electric trucks are

nothing new he works for the swedish manufacturer scania which has been developing in building electric trucks for a number of years and this new model gets its power from overhead contract lines using a pantograph. the silence listen to friends. when you turn off the internal combustion engine and go electric. you still have a little noise from the tires of course but you have no way brazen and no sign sound from the diesel and. there are five kilometers of overhead contact lines in each direction on this stretch of the outer bond with tests on the way in northern and southern germany. this is standardized the highway of all that is the same all over the height is the same so this truck can also go on the street if road and they can also go on the road say i'm. about to get them oh well connected

to the overhead lines of trucks battery charges so it needs much less battery volume than a purely better retrieve in each truck. the battery is physical sizes from here to here and about sixty centimeters deep the rest of the box is cooling and power electronics to keep the battery cool or warm depending on the weather outside in a few weeks five logistics companies will start delivering goods via the highway the overhead line will save companies time. to move there and here i have the possibility to load the view and during operation i can make my delivery my pickup truck back to the loading location and can load again at the same time basically if you do it right the battery is never empty and you never need to plug in the vehicles battery or refuel diesel between trips like i need to that's a huge advantage in michigan just point and switch to. this is the reason for

electro trucks running off the overhead contact lines are quiet and environmentally friendly but they're only one alternative to fossil fuel and only certain motorway sections are suitable for you don't have to electrify every last kilometer you could stick to routes where there's lots of heavy traffic this stretch handles thirteen thousand trucks a day so it's worthwhile that the lord's the results of this field test will be available in four years then the decision will be made on equipping any further autobahns sections with overhead contact lines. thrive as a derived. staging a strike in the u.s. and some other cities around the world on wednesday before the company's initial public offering this friday it's expected to value the company at ninety billion dollars drive us however complain that their income is too low typically expects them to use their own cars and pay for their own gas and insurance in return drivers want to lodge

a cost of the feds. former employees of branded airline jet airways are calling for a state backed solution for the embattled company the indian budget allan's twenty two thousand workers laid off in april after it's said that step was so excessive it could not pay its fuel bill jet airways is now and now owes more than a billion dollars that stuff when the state bank of india does step in with a two hundred million dollars bridging loan and get the airline back into the air. that's it from me of the business africa team here in berlin for more business news . dot com slash business leave you now with quick check on global. stage.

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